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Johann Sebastian Bach / Blechacz


Release Date: 02/10/2017 
Label:  Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog #: 002621302  
Composer:  Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz
Number of Discs: 1 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

Praised by the Washington Post as "a musician in service to [Bach's] music, searching its depths, exploring its meaning and probing its possibilities", Rafal Blechacz, winner of the 2005 International Chopin Piano Competition, releases his first album for DG devoted to Bach. The album includes the Partitas Nos. 1 & 3, Italian Concerto, Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, and more. Praised by the Washington Post as "a musician in service to [Bach's] music, searching its depths, exploring its meaning and probing its possibilities", Rafal Blechacz, winner of the 2005 International Chopin Piano Competition, releases his first album for DG devoted to Bach. The album includes the Partitas Nos. 1 & 3, Italian Concerto, Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, and more. Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
Italian Concerto, BWV 971 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1735; Leipzig, Germany 
2.
Partita for Keyboard no 1 in B flat major, BWV 825 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1726-1731; Leipzig, Germany 
3.
Duet for Organ in E minor, BWV 802 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: by 1739 
4.
Duet for Organ in F major, BWV 803 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: by 1739 
5.
Duet for Organ in G major, BWV 804 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: by 1739 
6.
Duet for Organ in A minor, BWV 805 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: by 1739 
7.
Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: Circa 1714; Germany 
8.
Partita for Keyboard no 3 in A minor, BWV 827 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1726-1731; Leipzig, Germany 
9.
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Jesu bleibet meine Freude "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Rafal Blechacz (Piano)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1723; Leipzig, Germany 

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